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Re: 568 making the impossible possible...kinda
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Originally Posted by Rombus
AFIK JonBell, You can have a laptop connected to the DASHBOARD only on the OI to display such information.

The camera display however, i dont know about. I know that you cant have any OTHER cameras transmitting, but if they figured out a way to transmit the picture from the CMU cam2 to the operator, that MIGHT be legal. Honistly i thought it wasnet possible to do that since i figured the radio couldnet support that kinda data transfer
Camera data is sent through a custom 6 or 8 byte packet using the userbytes, there are several custom packets for each part of the OI display with their own ID just like the real packets have. The laptop is just hooked up to the Dashboard port and sniffs and displays data visually. It's more like a monitor (the laptop) plugged into a computer (dashboard port). And the keyboard is a joypad connected to one of the joystick ports.
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